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Excerpt from English Local Government From the Revolution to the Municipal Corporations Act, Vol. 2: The Manor and the Borough Most important of them all, the Corporation of the City of London, which, from historical, political, and economic stand points alike, sums up and exemplifies in itself all the factors that constituted the Municipal Corporation of the eighteenth century. We group our types in three chapters. In the present chapter we confine ourselves to half a dozen towns differing widely in geographical position, history, extent, population, wealth, trade, politics, religion, and connection with Parliament, but alike in being governed by Close Bodies: a constitution which the Municipal Corporation Commissioners of 1 835 regarded as so typical of the whole Municipal Govem ment of that date that they termed it, par excellence, the Corporation System. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.